Hacker News: aesthetics1

New comment by aesthetics1 in "Good Culture Is the Biggest Productivity Hack, Not AI"

aesthetics1 — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 19:20:08 +0000

AI accelerates dysfunction. It will help you get to the wrong place faster if you're already heading there.

I do believe the opposite is true too. If you have a strong culture, a product or idea with promise, and a team of smart and capable people, it can move you faster in the right direction too.

The problem is that every person or company in group 1 thinks they are in group 2.

The industry is in a productivity panic

aesthetics1 — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 20:07:34 +0000

Article URL: https://jamesjboyer.substack.com/p/beautiful-irrelevant-things

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49425181

Points: 10

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The Productivity Panic

aesthetics1 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:13:17 +0000

Article URL: https://jamesjboyer.substack.com/p/beautiful-irrelevant-things

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49389377

Points: 2

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New comment by aesthetics1 in "The August 17 outage"

aesthetics1 — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 22:24:21 +0000

> Since April, monthly commits have grown from 1.4 billion to 2.9 billion

Bonkers.

You can tell the entire industry is in a "productivity panic" and here's more proof. There's a velocity zealot crying tears of joy somewhere.

Beautiful, Irrelevant Things: The Efficiency Era Ends the Way ZIRP Began

aesthetics1 — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:10:24 +0000

Article URL: https://jamesjboyer.substack.com/p/beautiful-irrelevant-things

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49375764

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

A Portrait of the Software Engineer, 2031

aesthetics1 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 15:27:47 +0000

Article URL: https://jamesjboyer.substack.com/p/a-portrait-of-the-software-engineer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48687815

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

A Portrait of the Software Engineer, 2031

aesthetics1 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 21:27:10 +0000

Article URL: https://jamesjboyer.substack.com/p/a-portrait-of-the-software-engineer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48438735

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

A Portrait of the Software Engineer, 2031

aesthetics1 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:49:53 +0000

Article URL: https://jamesjboyer.substack.com/p/a-portrait-of-the-software-engineer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48412550

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Performance Managing to the Room

aesthetics1 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 20:43:06 +0000

Article URL: https://jamesjboyer.substack.com/p/performance-managing-to-the-room

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47093662

Points: 1

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Bullshit Metrics and the Cowards Who Love Them

aesthetics1 — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 20:55:41 +0000

Article URL: https://jamesjboyer.substack.com/p/metrics-that-actually-matter

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46197551

Points: 1

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Metrics That Actually Matter

aesthetics1 — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 18:17:27 +0000

Article URL: https://jamesjboyer.substack.com/p/metrics-that-actually-matter

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46137943

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

AI Won't Fix Your Broken Systems

aesthetics1 — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 19:02:46 +0000

Article URL: https://jamesjboyer.substack.com/p/field-notes-from-the-efficiency-era

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45142333

Points: 2

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The Quiet of Competence

aesthetics1 — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 14:17:58 +0000

Article URL: https://jamesjboyer.substack.com/p/the-quiet-of-competence

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44798269

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Being Liked or "Mistaking Harmony for Health"

aesthetics1 — Thu, 29 May 2025 02:47:51 +0000

Article URL: https://jamesjboyer.substack.com/p/on-being-liked-or-mistaking-harmony

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44122656

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by aesthetics1 in "New MacBook Pro models to feature magsafe, no touch bar and more ports: analyst"

aesthetics1 — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 18:48:58 +0000

I have always believed that the MagSafe connector should be on the brick. A short, regular USB type C cable to the power brick and a MagSafe connector between the brick and the wall.

Bonus points if the brick incorporates a small hub with additional ports. This would allow you to choose between using a regular USB type C power cable or the proprietary brick with MagSafe built in.

New comment by aesthetics1 in "Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs"

aesthetics1 — Thu, 14 May 2020 16:25:45 +0000

One of the great features in Chrome is that you can open your recently closed tabs with CTRL+SHIFT+T. This will bring back an entire window full of tabs and even works between reboots. I usually have a dozen tabs open and when I reboot, I simply open up Chrome again, CTRL+SHIFT+T, and I am right back where I was.

New comment by aesthetics1 in "Setting up Git identities"

aesthetics1 — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 18:38:43 +0000

To get around this problem I just use a simple command-line utility that I wrote called gitswitch that I call whenever I jump to a new project. My name never changes but my email does, so that's all the utility changes. I suppose it would be neat to build in profiles, but I jump between 2-3 PCs regularly and would probably forget to update my profiles.

https://github.com/jboyer87/gitswitch

Example:

  gitswitch jboyer87@my-work-email.com

  gitswitch jboyer87@my-personal-email.com

New comment by aesthetics1 in "Ask HN: How do you enforce database standards?"

aesthetics1 — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 23:04:28 +0000

Thanks a lot for this. I'm in touch with the red gate folks now and I appreciate you sharing your experience.

New comment by aesthetics1 in "Ask HN: How do you enforce database standards?"

aesthetics1 — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 18:31:09 +0000

Thanks for sharing this. I have been evaluating the red gate suite of tools. Is there a particular module in their deployment suite that helps manage/automate standards as you mentioned?

Our team consists of a single DBA and around a dozen developers. We're a .NET/C# shop but we use Oracle Databases.

Ask HN: How do you enforce database standards?

aesthetics1 — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 16:58:23 +0000

How does your team ensure that your database standards are being followed? Naming standards, ensuring certain triggers are present, index/constraint rules, etc. Do you use tools, code reviews, or some other method?

I'm finding that this seems to be a harder problem to solve than enforcing other types of coding standards.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21346515

Points: 3

# Comments: 5